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A 63-0 win and a perfect record are gone after Serrano High’s football team agreed to forfeit one game.
Serrano had routed each of its first four opponents, including a 63-0 win over Palmdale Quartz Hill on Sept. 11.
Ray Maholchic, Serrano’s athletic director and football coach said a player entered the fourth quarter of the Quartz Hill game who had originally had his transfer cleared.
But after the game, additional review of the transfer by the Snowline Joint Unified School District determined that the student should have been required to take serve a 30-day sit-out period. As a result. Serrano will forfeit the game.
“It (the player) didn’t really affect anything,” Maholchic said. “I guess we jumped the gun, but if there’s a silver lining, it didn’t happen in league.”
Serrano, is now 3-1, ranked No. 5 in The Sun Top 10 and No. 2 in the CIF-SS Eastern Division poll. The Diamondbacks have a bye this week before traveling to play Norco Oct. 2. Maholchic said the player is expected to play on the junior varsity this season.

In the wake of a multitude of injuries, Arrowhead Christian Academy has decided to forfeit Friday’s scheduled Ambassador League football home game against Ontario Christian.
“It’s never an easy decision,” ACA coach John Beck said. “A lot of my boys put in as much work or more as other schools. But our numbers were not what they needed to be.”
After last week’s 52-7 loss to Aquinas that dropped the Eagles’ record to 1-5, Beck said he had only two of nine healthy upperclassmen. He has 20 sophomores in the program, of which five would not have been able to play tonight. No freshmen are eligible for varsity.
“We have some kids who aren’t ready to compete against varsity kids,” Beck said. “It just got to the point where we couldn’t field a team with safety.”
He told the league before this week that this was a possibility, but didn’t make the decision until this week.
He expects to have enough healthy players to play the Oct. 19 game at Temecula Linfield Christian.